How you can help…

The La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation offers you multiple ways to support our children, our schools and our community. Donating is only the beginning!

Join The Senior Class Gift Challenge

Our second annual Senior Class Gift Challenge is going on right now. Click here to honor our graduating seniors!

Learn about the LCUSD Task Force

The LCUSD Task Force was formed in late 2010 to raise awareness in our community of the severe financial crisis facing our public schools. The Task Force is asking all families and businesses to donate at least $2500 to the Foundation each year for the next five years. Click here to find out why.

Make an in-kind donation

In-Kind donations are donations of goods or services directly to the Foundation, e.g. items for our Gala Auction, catering for a Foundation event or art design/publishing for Foundation documents. In-kind donations to 501c3 organizations like the Foundation may possibly be tax deductible. If you would like a receipt for your in-kind donation, please print out this form and send it back to us.

Keep in touch with us

Would you like to receive regular Foundation updates via email? We promise not to bombard you. If you’re not already receiving our emails, just email admin@lcfef.org and ask to be included on our list.

Partners In Excellence – Foundation on the 15th

June 2010 marked the debut of an ongoing monthly program that encourages La Cañada Flintridge residents to shop in town and support our schools. On the 15th of each month, our Partners in Excellence will donate a percentage of their daily receipts to the La Canada Flintridge Educational Foundation. To see our list of local business partners, click here.

If you would like to become a Partner in Excellence, send an email to development@lcfef.org.

Include us in your estate plan

You can support the Foundation’s commitment to excellence in public education through a bequest, trust, IRA, gift annuity, life insurance, pension plan or other planned gift. To make the Foundation aware of your intentions, send this non-binding notification of bequest to the Foundation. Should you need more information on planned giving vehicles, you can contact your estate planning attorney, or contact Holly Bullard at Holley & Galen, an estate planning firm that works with the Foundation.

Transfer stock

Donating appreciated stocks have benefits for the Foundation as well as donors. In addition to the satisfaction of helping our kids and our schools, donors receive a deduction for the full current market value of their asset, not the original cost. Additionally, donors avoid the 20% capital gains tax on the stock’s appreciation cost. For information on how to transfer your appreciated asset to the Foundation’s brokerage account, click here.

Attend our events

Our events, including our annual spring Gala, are among the most popular ways people contribute to the Foundation. To read about the Gala and our online auction, click here.

Millennium Campaign

The Endowment Fund has launched a “Millennium Campaign” with the goal of growing the Endowment through additional donations and asset appreciation to $10 million. Our goal is to ensure the continuity of the important programs that the Foundation supports, regardless of any fluctuations that may occur year to year in annual giving to the Foundation.

If we are able to achieve our long-term fundraising goals, the Endowment Fund would generate approximately $500,000 per year in annual contributions to our schools. At that level of funding, we can ensure that the important programs supported by the Foundation will be secure in perpetuity.

Email us for more information about how you can support the Millennium Campaign.

Employer matching funds

Many companies match donations by their employees to charitable and other nonprofit organizations. This is an excellent way to increase your donation to the Foundation. The company’s matching contribution counts towards your annual gift total. Check with your company’s human resources department to see if they have a program.

Tribute and memorial gifts

Not sure what to get that person who has everything? How about making a tribute gift in their honor to the Endowment fund? Instead of sending flowers to express sympathy at the passing of a friend, consider making a gift in their memory. If sending in a gift, please include a note making your tribute or memorial intentions known and whom we should notify of your gift. This option is available online as well.

Patronize our business partners

Enroll for the first time in Anderson Adventure Camp and 10% of your LCUSD students’ tuition will benefit LCFEF.

Union 76 at Foothill and Alta Canyada donates a penny per gallon of all gas sold on the 15th of every month.

Donate your car to the Foundation via Riteway Charity Services.

Do your on-line shopping through One Cause for a percentage of every purchase coming back to our kids.

Have your car repaired at Holmes Body Shop and they will donate 5% of the total cost of your repairs to our schools.

If your workplace conducts a United Way campaign, you can contribute to the LCF Educational Foundation as your designated agency. The Foundation’s Five Digit ID# is 35217.